Breakfast Links
It appears that lensbabies has released a creative aperture kit which changes the shape of the out of focus points on your photos (I believe the kids call this bokeh). It comes with a heart cutout and a star as well as 5 blanks for your very own - the sample pics in the gallery for this are pretty funny. I vaguely recall this, so it’s possible that this wasn’t actually “just released”.
Motorola is touting the MOTORIZR Z8. I kinda dig this phone - I mean, it’s no Nokia 8801, but you have to give them credit for: a - not making another clamshell and b - making a wierd curvy slider. I’ll have to see one in person, but I’m into it so far. Here’s my question - do people really use email on their smartphone phones?
And here’s a post about some dude who gave a homeless kid a camera and some film and the kid sent back some hundred pictures. That’s pretty cool, if you ask me. It makes me feel bad about the time I borrowed all the robotech tapes from a guy at the local waldenbooks because he was really nice (his personal tapes) and I never returned them. But I digress… so in the post the guy says it was mostly out of focus shots of people sitting and other uninteresting shots and then goes and posts 32 pictures that were pretty interesting! 1/3 is a pretty good ratio if you ask me!
February 12th, 2007 at 11:28 am
Strange, i also feel bad about about borrowing robotech tapes from a guy at waldenbooks and never returning. what a coincidence. did we never give him our phone numbers?
also, i blogged about the anti “sock puppet” law yesterday too. weird.
February 12th, 2007 at 11:48 am
I think the creative aperture kit is relatively new. Don’t recall seeing it when I checked out their 3G Lensbaby a little while ago. Always wanted to play around with one but figured I’d work on my technique with regular lenses first. =p
February 12th, 2007 at 11:52 am
The “robotech incident” is honestly one of the worst things I’ve ever done! And not because I haven’t done bad things.. ok, well, I haven’t, but you know what I’m saying. We totally never gave the guy our numbers and when we finally got off our asses and went to return them (like a year later) he wasn’t working there anymore - or at least we had no means to find him since we didn’t know his name or anything. Sad.
I know you blogged about it because you like saying “sock puppet”. I didn’t even know you were blogging. Who else is involved in that blog?
I’m glad the aperture kit is new - I’d hate to be one of those bloggers that brings up old tech! You have a lensbaby or you just sticking with one real baby? ;)
February 12th, 2007 at 11:56 am
Heh, nah, never got around to getting one. Looks fun to play with though.
February 12th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Has Motorola improved on their UI any? That was the big beef I had with their stuff from years back. The UI was pretty crappy. And Nokia hasn’t come out with anything really interesting for ages now.
February 12th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
beats me… I’m not sure I ever had a motorola phone. I think I started nokia and moved on to palm. You’re crazy if you don’t find the 8800 series interesting! It’s a work of art.
April 17th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
i had a motorola phone one time that (and I’m serious) made you use a wap application to add people to your address book. After you added someone it would take a couple minutes before your local address book was updated. Amazing.
Also: I use email like mad on my smartphone, but I have a treo so I’m not who you’re asking about, am I?
April 17th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
no, I guess I meant more phone form factor smart phones as opposed to pda form factor. That’s the thing of it, who can read email and the like regularly on those tiny little screens.